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Replaceable battery on Note 8 (I hope!).

• simonh 10y ago
  I've seen this suggested on other threads, but why? If your phone starts smoking and burning out are you really going to start fiddling with it to remove the now red-hot battery? What are you going to do with it if you do remove it? All you've done is remove a physical barrier between the incendiary device and flamables in the environment. We don't even know if the flaw is in the battery itself. Maybe it's in the charging circuitry, or even the software controlling the charging cycle. Personally in a situation like this I wouldn't care where the flaw was, I'd want a different replacement device anyway. Especially if even the device manufacturer apparently can't figure out how to make these things safe. Finally, one theory is that Samsung designed the battery cells to be too thin. Since removable battery designs reduce the amount of space available for a battery, the constraints on the battery size would be even greater, conceivably making an issue like this even more likely.
  • pritambaral 10y ago
    It's not about just what the user can do with a replaceable battery, it's about how much easier it becomes for the company to replace batteries in the field (and backplate, if too thin): just ship new batteries and have user come and immediately leave with a "fixed" phone. (Of course, if your new battery is also broken, then nothing really can help.) And — do correct me if I'm wrong — but removable batteries don't add thickness, only length.